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conceptpad commented on Ram Dass has died tricycle.org/trikedaily/r... · Posted by u/okareaman

Perhaps lies is not the best word in this case. Is there a word in English for someone that gives advice knowing that they themselves are not qualified to do so? Like if I were to confidently give you medical advice despite not being a doctor. Putting on a façade?

conceptpad · 6 years ago

Charlatan

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conceptpad commented on Chinese Money in the U.S. Dries Up as Trade War Drags On nytimes.com/2019/07/21/us... · Posted by u/pseudolus

usaar333 · 6 years ago

Couldn't it also make housing less affordable as less investment means less homes get built?

conceptpad · 6 years ago

Building isn't the bottleneck in the system - it's land that is zoned for residential development.

conceptpad commented on Show HN: CoolQLCool – Turn Websites into GraphQL Accessible APIs coolql.cool... · Posted by u/gavino

conceptpad · 7 years ago

Great project! I can imagine this may greatly improve web certain classes of scraping. @gavino I'm curious what tooling and architecture you used to put this together?

conceptpad commented on Open Source is Not About You gist.github.com/richhicke... · Posted by u/jashkenas

conceptpad · 7 years ago

Rich Hickey has given so much to the world of software and systems design. The value exchange has most likely not been reciprocal. Nor has it been sufficiently respectful, based on this message. People like Rich that give so much are rare. And people that understand how to respectfully recognize that seem to be becoming more rare.

Of course, one can remember that life is not fair, and people are often shitty even without being conscious of it, and that Rich has freely chosen to pursue this path.

But this leads me to a few questions: If you agree with what I have written above, and what Rich has written in this message, then how can we tip the scales just a little bit further towards respect and reciprocation? What kind of gestures, gifts, and generosities do you think are appropriate? What improved efforts to educate consumers of open source software would be effective? Further still, what kind of culture do we want?

conceptpad commented on Now 2.0 zeit.co/blog/now-2... · Posted by u/Rauchg

ontouchstart · 7 years ago

I took a look at this

https://github.com/zeit/now-builders

It seems that it might be possible to write a bulder like @now/jupyter to automatically deploy Jupyter notebooks with a requirements.txt. The questions are:

1. Is your team going to write it?

2. Is it possible for a third party to write it and put in the now.json?

    {
      "version": 2,
      "builds": [
        { "src": "*.py", "@thirdparty/jupyter" }
      ]
    }

conceptpad · 7 years ago

Not to speak for @rauchg and the team, but I think the answers are 1: no (or not soon) and 2: yes

conceptpad commented on Silicon Valley's Keystone Problem: A Monoculture of Thought nytimes.com/2018/10/02/te... · Posted by u/Gimpei

conceptpad · 7 years ago

It is orthogonal to the Times article, but George Gilder's recent book "Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy" [1] offers a valuable perspective. His recent interview at the Stanford Hoover Institute [2] is compelling.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072NYKG2G/ [2] https://www.hoover.org/research/george-gilder-forget-cloud-c...

conceptpad commented on Show HN: CSS Scan – Instantly check or copy computed CSS from any element guivr.github.io/cssscan... · Posted by u/guivr

conceptpad · 7 years ago

Great tool! I'd like to see you keep going with this. Quick feedback: it would be useful to copy the entire ruleset, including the selector and brackets (as an option). Further if you can reach into source via document.stylesheets, grab the selectors from source (as another option).

conceptpad commented on Stripe Press press.stripe.com/... · Posted by u/gregorymichael

criddell · 7 years ago

I'm confused - are these reprints of existing books?

Is Waldrop's book on Licklider the same as this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Machine-Licklider-Revolution-Co...

conceptpad · 7 years ago

I think it is the same book. Personal review: This book makes the history of computing tangible, visceral, and fun to read about - covering all the important characters, and showing the network of connections among them, from Vannevar Bush, Norbert Weiner, Claude Shannon, all the way to Bob Taylor and Alan Kay. Licklider forms an important node in the network with his imagination, and actions taken such as this 1963 memo for the "Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network" [1]

[1] http://worrydream.com/refs/Licklider-IntergalacticNetwork.pd...

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